Posted by admin | Posted in Most Popular | Posted on 03-05-2009
Tags: children story by slick rick, ping.fm
Hip hop and Johnny Cash?
I was reading an interview with Chuck D where he said he considered Johnny Cash to be “hip hop”. Obviously, he wasn’t a rapper, but in some senses I think he was hip hop.
Eg: Slick Rick’s children’s story is considered by many to be the hip hop version of Don’t Take Your Guns To Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raXKeQ5qFwo
Or there’s San Quentin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgja26eNeY
What are your thoughts? Are there any artists who you think aren’t technically hip hop artists, but still embody the spirit of hip hop? Or do you think they can’t be hip hop at all?
i think its evident whose young and whose not by the answers
or young and dumb i should say
johnny cash embodied the hip-hop spirit because he 1st and foremost was hassled by the po po all the time
2nd he made songs about real s hit which when it started the hiphop culture did alot more of
3rd he wore black all the damn time
my 2 cents…
today became a cash day…
thanks bonnie
i am gonna drop some non hip hop stuff on zamunda…
u have opened the floodgates
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